UFOs in the Private Sector - Lockheed Martin

Overview

This video examines Lockheed Martin's alleged deep involvement in US government UAP crash retrieval, material exploitation, and reverse engineering programs. UAP Gerb argues that unlike Battelle Memorial Institute, whose paper trail with USAF and ATIC is extensive, Lockheed presents an "astonishingly thin" documentary record — a circumstance the host attributes to Lockheed's superior document security and status as the nation's largest defense contractor. The video surveys multiple Lockheed employees and insiders who made extraordinary claims about the company's UFO-related work, situates those claims within auditable government records, and traces a tentative paper trail connecting Lockheed to the alleged Aurora Program triangular aircraft.

The host opens with the claim — sourced to a confidential speaker with knowledge of a specific Lockheed facility — that Lockheed wished to divest itself of retrieved UAP materials and sought a CIA-managed "security catcher mitt" to receive them. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid corroborates the general picture, stating in a 2021 New York Times interview that he was told for decades Lockheed possessed retrieved UAP materials and was personally denied Pentagon clearance to view them. David Grusch and Gary Nolan are cited as additional credible figures who have named Lockheed in this context.

The video proceeds through four key Lockheed-connected insiders — Ben Rich, Don Phillips, Boyd Bushman, and Bernard Haisch — rating them in descending order of credibility. It then addresses USAF Master Sergeant Edgar Fouché's claim that Lockheed reverse-engineered a triangular craft at the Defense Advanced Research Center beneath Area 51, coining the term "TR-3B." The video closes with an analysis of the anti-gravity research lineage running from the Glenn L. Martin Company through Martin Marietta to Lockheed Martin, and with circumstantial evidence linking Lockheed to Project Aurora / Astra — an alleged clandestine triangular-craft program that attracted documented British government concern.

Key Lockheed Insiders

Ben Rich

Ben Rich, the second director of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and father of the F-117A stealth fighter, is the most widely cited Lockheed figure in UAP discourse. The video notes that his famous UCLA quote — "We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects" — cannot be verified by audio or video, and that its primary recorder, Linda Moulton Howe, is known to take reportorial liberties. However, a July 10, 1986 letter from Rich to researcher John B. Alexander is presented as documented: Rich wrote that he was "a believer in both categories" of UFOs (man-made and extraterrestrial) and acknowledged "many of our man-made UFOs are unfunded opportunities." Jan Harzan, then-MUFON director, attended Rich's 1993 UCLA conference and confirmed Rich ended his talk with a slide of a black disc and the statement "we now have the technology to take ET home," though the broader crowd apparently missed its literal implication. Tom Keller also confirmed the quote in a 2010 MUFON article.

Don Phillips

Don Phillips was an alleged former Lockheed Skunk Works, USAF, and CIA contractor who gave testimony through Steven Greer's Disclosure Project in 2001. Phillips claimed Lockheed holds extraterrestrial technology and derived "tremendous technological advances" from studying it, that the US military acquired craft from Roswell, and that Lockheed was involved in anti-gravity research. UAP Gerb flags a significant credibility gap: the only verifiable documentation found is a July 29, 1965 newspaper clipping confirming an Air Force role and enrollment at Pierce College — the same institution attended by Bob Lazar. His claimed Skunk Works and CIA background could not be independently verified.

Boyd Bushman

Boyd Bushman, a verified Lockheed senior specialist with Top Secret/SCI/SAP clearance who served in Department 60-8 (Special Programs Division), made a widely discussed deathbed video claiming Lockheed recovered debris and materials from crash sites in New Mexico — likely Roswell and possibly the Kingman, Arizona crash — and that Lockheed conducted anti-gravity R&D. Bushman claimed UAP craft are composed of three key materials: thoride, germanium, and palladium — which have genuine thermoelectric, photovoltaic, and superconducting properties relevant to advanced propulsion. In 1999, he came under FBI investigation for suspicious foreign contact, apparently related to anti-gravity inquiries with contacts in Prague. Bushman's credibility is undermined by his inclusion of a photograph later identified as a Kmart Halloween toy figurine as alleged photographic evidence of alien bodies — a discrediting element UAP Gerb attributes either to deliberate disinformation or accidental deception.

Bernard Haisch

Bernard Haisch, PhD astrophysicist, is assessed as the most credible Lockheed-connected insider. Haisch co-authored a paper with physicist Hal Puthoff for the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) on Zero Point Energy of the quantum vacuum and its potential resonant frequencies for propulsion. In 2001, Haisch published an essay titled "Black Special Access Programs," arguing that crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs are structurally independent of elected administrations and impenetrable by FOIA — foreshadowing the post-2023 world described by David Grusch. In 2018, Haisch publicly stated that four related but separate unacknowledged SAPs tracing to a 1947 Truman memorandum still existed and were housed, as of the 1990s, in major aerospace companies including Lockheed, TRW, and Raytheon. He estimated these programs carry budgets "in the $10 billion range and up" covering both reverse engineering and extraterrestrial biology. He also stated that ATIP found the UFO crash retrieval program via official channels but was denied access — a direct corroboration of the account in the Wilson-Davis Memo.

Edgar Fouché and the TR-3B

Although not a Lockheed employee, USAF Master Sergeant Edgar Fouché is addressed because his TR-3B claims directly implicate Lockheed. Fouché, whose military records confirm service with Detachment 3, AFFTC — the Air Force unit responsible for Area 51 operations — claimed he was temporarily assigned in 1979 to the Defense Advanced Research Center (DARC) beneath Groom Lake. There, he learned of a triangular craft reverse-engineered by contractors including Lockheed, with prototypes dating to the early 1990s. Fouché coined the term "TR-3B" and named the craft's code designation as "Astra." UAP Gerb notes that aviation illustrator Mark McCandlish reportedly witnessed a triangular craft at a Lockheed facility, flagged for a future video.

Anti-Gravity Research Lineage

The video traces an anti-gravity research lineage through Lockheed's predecessor corporations. In 1955, physicist Lou Whitten was reportedly recruited by George Trimble, Vice President for Advanced Propulsion Systems at the Glenn L. Martin Company (later Martin Marietta, which merged with Lockheed in 1995), into the Research Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS). Whitten stated the team discovered techniques to harness anti-gravity, including experiments with an isotope of bismuth, and journal evidence confirms the research took place. In 1998, Haisch and Hal Puthoff published their Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) paper on Zero Point Energy, extending this lineage into quantum vacuum research. A 2017 Naval Air Station patent by inventor Sal Pais for a triangular craft using specific frequencies to interact with the quantum vacuum echoes this line of work.

Retired Lt. Col. Ron Blackburn of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and co-founder of the ATIP group at BDM International was awarded a patent on August 22, 1998 for technology increasing aerodynamic and hydrodynamic efficiency — including a sketch of a disc. Blackburn subsequently stated he reverse-engineered the capability to eliminate sonic booms at high speeds by studying videos of disc-shaped craft. The patent's combined trans-medium and Mach-speed-without-sonic-boom characteristics align with the UAP observables catalogued by Luis Elizondo.

Project Aurora / Astra

The video presents circumstantial but multi-sourced evidence linking Lockheed to Project Aurora / Astra, an alleged classified triangular-craft program. The program name appears in DOD fiscal year 1986–87 procurement documents with $80 million planned for 1986 and $2.3 billion for 1987 — more than double the B-2 Spirit bomber's cost at the time. In the late 1990s, author Nick Cook visited Lockheed's Palmdale facility and observed, upon leaving, a large Skunk Works aircraft lineage chart listing "Astra" — described as an ultra-high-speed triangular reconnaissance craft — past the Darkstar. Jack Gordon, departing Skunk Works head, dismissed it nervously as "an old airliner." The Calvine UFO Photo, released in 2022–23, depicts a large diamond/triangular UFO photographed in Scotland; the British MOD's Project Condign investigation lists it as "Astra/Aurora photos." A December 22, 1992 letter from the British Embassy in Washington to the UK assistant chief of air staff reveals British officials monitoring US reaction to triangular UAP sightings provoked "considerable irritation," and Secretary of the Air Force Donald Rice was "incensed" by renewed Congressional speculation that he had lied about Aurora's existence.

Document Trail and GAO Audit

Lockheed's official UFO paper trail includes a 1953 Blue Book-era sighting in which Lockheed test pilots and ground crew observed a flying disc with anomalous acceleration characteristics and swore testimony — but the case was submitted to Project Blue Book and never listed again. More significantly, a July 24, 1986 Congressional testimony by GAO National Security Division director Frank Conahan found that Lockheed exhibited poor document control over classified special access documents, had zero DOD oversight on certain special access contracts, and that the Defense Investigative Service was barred from semiannual inspections. Out of 40,000 documents, 1,460 discrepancies were found, approximately 46 were destroyed, and 17 were transferred out of the company and never recovered. UAP Gerb connects this to the Wilson-Davis Memo passage in which Wilson is told the watch committee reorganized SAP status after an audit "nearly outed" them. Commander Will Miller in 2000 told attorney Peter Gon that the "keepers of the secrets" reside in DOD middle management and civilian contractors like SAIC, Boeing, and Lockheed — "basically the comptrollers who monitor the flow of money to certain classified and special access programs." Catherine Austin Fitts's 2004 paper "The Black Budget of the United States" found that Lockheed Martin Information Systems was involved in auditing DOJ systems and may hold data on siphoned DOD funds.

Key Claims

• A confidential source stated that Lockheed wished to divest retrieved UAP materials at a specific facility (street address provided to the Inspector General), with the CIA serving as government customer in a high-security custodial arrangement.
• Harry Reid stated in a 2021 New York Times interview he was told for decades Lockheed possessed retrieved UAP materials and was denied Pentagon clearance to view them.
• A documented 1986 letter from Ben Rich to John Alexander confirms Rich believed in both man-made and extraterrestrial UFO categories; no audio or video evidence exists for his more dramatic 1993 UCLA statements.
• Jan Harzan confirmed Rich closed his UCLA presentation with a slide of a black disc and "we now have the technology to take ET home."
• Boyd Bushman was a verified Lockheed Top Secret/SCI/SAP employee in the Special Programs Division who claimed crash recovery materials were held by Lockheed; credibility is undercut by photographing a toy figurine as alien evidence.
• Bernard Haisch publicly stated in 2018 that four unacknowledged SAPs tracing to a 1947 Truman memorandum were housed in major aerospace contractors including Lockheed, with budgets "in the $10 billion range and up."
• A 1986 GAO audit of Lockheed found 1,460 discrepancies in classified documents, zero DOD oversight of certain special access contracts, and 46 documents destroyed and 17 irretrievably transferred out of the company.
• DOD procurement documents show $2.3 billion allocated to an "Aurora" program in fiscal year 1987 — more than double the B-2 Spirit bomber's cost — suggesting a major classified aircraft program beyond acknowledged projects.
• The British MOD's Project Condign labeled the Calvine UFO photo as "Astra/Aurora photos," indicating British awareness of a US contractor triangular-craft program.
• Ron Blackburn (Lockheed Skunk Works) holds a 1998 patent for technology eliminating sonic booms derived from studying videos of disc-shaped craft, matching multiple UAP observables.

Sources

• YouTube — UAP Gerb

Related Pages

• People: Ben Rich, Don Phillips, Boyd Bushman, Bernard Haisch, Hal Puthoff, Edgar Fouche, Harry Reid, David Grusch, Gary Nolan, Jan Harzan, John B. Alexander, Linda Moulton Howe, Tom Keller, Nick Cook, Jack Gordon, Lou Whitten, George Trimble, Ron Blackburn, Sal Pais, Will Miller, Catherine Austin Fitts, Frank Conahan
• Organizations: Lockheed Martin, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC), Martin Marietta, CIA, BDM International, General Accounting Office, MUFON
• Concepts: Zero Point Energy, Aurora Program, TR-3B, Anti-Gravity Propulsion, Special Access Programs, Reverse Engineering
• Locations: Area 51, UCLA, Air Force Plant 42